Tin Square Wall Sconce

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Design by Marcello Ziliani, 2000 Made in Italy by FLOS. The Tin Square Wall Sconce provides diffused and direct light. Its body is die-cast aluminum, finished in enamel or plated, and supports a flashed, hand-blown, acid-etched opaline... Read More

Born 1963. Marcello Ziliani graduated in architecture from Politecnico of Milan. He is the owner of STUDIO ZETASS, an integrated firm dealing with product design, engineering, graphic design and design coordination. From 1993 to 1997 Marcello Ziliani was president of "ABC - incontri sul progetto", a cultural association dealing with the organization of meetings and workshops on "the project" subject. In 1996 he was member of the jury of the competition "Young Italian Design" promoted by IKEA. From 1997 to 1999 he was art-director of Salviati and since December 2000 he has been art-director of Zago-Tech Chairs.

FLOS was founded in 1962 are the Italian Lighting Specialists. The very same year FLOS began producing a number of lamps that
were to become classics in Italian industrial design. These first lamps were Arco, Relemme, Toio and Taccia — all designed by
Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni. As a tangible proof of FLOS Lighting's timeless design and technical excellence, these lamps
continue to be produced today.

It all started with cocoon...In 1959 Arturo Eisenkeil from Merano, an importer of
cocoon — a spray-on plastic coating produced in the United States - was tracking down possible applications for this new
material. He joined forces with Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina and set up a company to produce lighting fixtures. This marked the
beginning of the long-standing association in the area of design with the Castiglioni brothers and Tobia Scarpa. The first cocoon
lamps ever created were the offspring of this collaboration: Viscontea, Taraxacum and Gatto by the Castiglioni brothers and
Fantasma by Scarpa.

FLOS moved from Merano to the province of Brescia in 1964: At first to Nave and then to the current premises in Bovezzo.
Sergio Gandini became chairman of FLOS in 1965. In 1974, the company became the owner of Arteluce — one of the key Italian
companies in the industrial design sector. Gino Sarfatti, an industrialist and designer, is the founder of Arteluce. Several
models designed by Sarfatti himself have been incorporated into the product range.

From the very outset, FLOS has been characterized by its high-quality approach to lamp design and production. Many of the
numerous lamps designed for the company, first by Achille and Piergiacomo, are undoubtedly some of FLOS Lighting's best-known and
most successful products of industrial design. They have won awards and historical critical accolades, and are included in all
the most important collections and design museums around the world.